Why is the Book of Hebrews included in the New Testament? It’s full of Jewish allusion to rituals that seem completely irrelevant to us as 21stC Gentile Christians. But God has chosen to have it included in His Word. He knew that we, 2000 years later in a little country at the edge of the earth, would be reading it, so it must mean something to us today. Our identity as Christians is in God. If we profess a Christian faith, we must understand the beginnings of that faith in order to appreciate the principles that govern it. Society exerts pressure on the church, and unless the church understands the foundational principles of her faith, her God will be formed in society’s image. “The Church does not know who she is, because she does not know who she was.”
The Book of Hebrews reveals the Author and the Completer of our faith, and in the midst of modern political conflict, and even in the midst of Covid, God offers us both encouragement and warning to not drift away from that very faith that gives us hope.
